In which Pixel continues to battle the Rust monster.

"Pixel" (Improbcat) 04/14/2014 at 11:09 • Filed to: None

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Had a few hours this weekend, and got a surprising amount done on the truck.

Pulled the inner fenders and, for once, found no new rot surprises waiting for me(I already knew about the rot on the edge of the cab toeboard).

Also pulled the front bumper. Tally was 3 snapped bolts, and 4 that needed to be cut off and 1 that actually came out intact. With this I am finally done with the major dis-assembly of the front end. In theory it will all be repairs and re-assembly from this point. Of course this means I will need to start buying parts for said re-assembly.

Welded up the front of the passenger inner fender. Don't know what this was supposed to look like as mine is completely gone, so went with something that looked right. Still need to measure & re-drill the two bolt holes.

Then I drilled out the spot welds for the bracket that supports the battery tray so I could fix some rust caused by crud trapped between it and the inner fender. I think the spot weld cutter is my new favorite tool.

The offending rust holes, you can see welding slag from my attempts to patch it without removing the bracket.

New patches welded in, for some reason I could no get a decent pic of these. I think all the shiny metal confused my camera.

Also cut off the nut on the bracket that had a snapped bolt stuck in it and welded in a replacement.

Next up, the rust on the rear of the panel.